Most of the increase will go to a 3 percent pay raise for about half the college and university employees not covered by the money legislators appropriated to give state employees a 3 percent pay raise.

Idaho’s education board began putting a heavy hand on tuition growth last year, saying schools needed to be affordable to draw more students and help improve the number of residents with degrees in Idaho.

The board also wanted to acknowledge the Legislature’s increased state funding — up 8 percent for the four-year institutions for next year – and not try to hit up students for a lot more money at the same time, Westerberg said.

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'Payback' from athletics has lifted Boise State as a whole, Kustra says

Sports is "an enormous investment" for Boise State University, but one that has paid off for the school as a whole, said BSU President Bob Kustra. "That Fiesta Bowl of 2007 really gave us a set of strategies on how we could take the rest of the university on the national stage that football took us in that year." Kustra plans to retire in June 2018. He spoke Nov. 17, 2017, two days after announcing those retirement plans.